Reminder that Pascal's Wager is air tight and no one has been able to effectively rebuke it.
>inb4 people raise arguments Pascal himself anticipated and addressed because they've never read Pensées
>>1351158
What if God favours people who do not believe he exists?
>>1351158
but which god do you believe in?
So what religion has the greatest disparity between a good and a bad afterlife? Seems like that would be the one to go for.
Reminder that peasant farmers using gliders and dried wooden sticks where able to down this many American "aircraft" during vietnam.
they were supplied by the soviets you memelord
>>1351150
>Reminder that peasant farmers using gliders and dried wooden sticks where able to down this many American "aircraft" during vietnam
>Soviet Trained NVA pilots using the newest Soviet planes downed that many American aircraft
>Commie sympathizer anon jerks himself off nearly 60 years later to the idea
It's like pottery
> I know literally nothing about the Vietnam war: the post
ITT We post famous robots
just look at the neckbeard
Is there a value in practicing asceticism even if you're an atheist?
>Asceticism (/əˈsɛtJsJzəm/; from the Greek: ἄσkησις áskesis, "exercise" or "training") is a lifestyle characterized by abstinence from worldly pleasures, often for the purpose of pursuing spiritual goals (Wikipedia)
Interestingly, a minimalism movement/aesthetic have grown out of rising capitalism. Is that a sign asceticism has or will have a place in modern society? An alternative lifestyle focusing on the higher things of life such as philosophical questions. Naturally a hipster minimalist facade is not ascetic but perhaps it's a wind in that direction at least.
Personally I've been attracted to asceticism for years and I'm not entirely sure why, maybe it's just masochism, but it does feel less hypocritical and more cleansing.
Stoicism has nothing to do with belief in gods. So sure.
>>1351126
>Stoicism
What has this got to do with anything
>>1351117
>atheism
>pursuing spiritual goals
If you could give a title to the contemporary world (read: post WW II), what would it be?
I would name it:
>Of slaves and whores: the death of dignity
I would name it simply, The 2010s.
The last days
>>1351011
fair enough but I was thinking more of something that could give a sense of this era to future generations who didn't know it.
For instance, if someone told you yeah there was this era called "the 1350s" you wouldn't get the same feel as "the dark ages"
What was it like in the Kingdom of Kush?
dank
>>1350714
It was lit senpai
WE
nobody remembers because everyone was high xD
Was he right or just autistic?
There's plenty of more interesting reactionary thinkers than Evola but you autists just keep making the exact same threads over and over and over, there's two fucking threads about Evola on the first page right now, apparently him and Marx are the only two people /his/ knows about fuck.
>>1350619
He was a dirty fucking revisionist
As the title goes, I'd like a hand with identifying the title of a painting.
I believe it depicts a man clutching a dead or wounded person, facing in the general direction of the viewer. The dead person is to the viewer's right of the main subject.
In a (perhaps superficial) colour palette and stylistic way, it reminds me of Saturn Devouring, shown here. Especially, the prominent eyes, but while Saturn looks animalistic, the subject I'm looking for looks despairing.
I also believe that the face is more detailed than Saturn's, but I could be misremembering.
I'm not even certain about the composition of the painting.
>>1350557
This? It's Ivan the terrible and his son, whom he had killed
>>1350557
I think you are talking about Richard Upton Pickman's work. Guys pretty based.
>>1350565
YES
THANK YOU SWEET CHRIST
Who decides what is and isn't a human right?
Whoever writes the bill of rights it's on.
Also:
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rights-human/
>In the foreword to the book's 30th-anniversary edition, Dawkins said he "can readily see that [the book's title] might give an inadequate impression of its contents" and in retrospect thinks he should have taken Tom Maschler's advice and called the book The Immortal Gene.
Just in case of misunderstandings.
>>1350521
Society
Discuss pic related and your thoughts on human nature.
>>1350506
Human nature according to God.
>>1350516
But does such an entety exists?
>>1350518
Such a human to live like Jesus did, very unlikely - maybe some people imitate somewhat his exact behavior on earth but they are able to do so only in desert or forests all alone without social poisoning.
The point is that God took human body - to show humans how they should live, behave, think like.
Why do some sects of Christianity not celebrate Easter?
>>1350482
because they are dirty fucking heathens that's why
>>1350482
Because Easter is a pagan festival, Jesus wasn't born anywhere near it.
>>1351594
> Jesus wasn't born anywhere near it
but he was killed in easter or passover
What happened to the blade that cut the Gordian knot in real life, /his/?
>>1350425
It rests above the bed of maharajah/whatever bla bla bla
T. Wonderslut
>>1350425
Rusted into nothing by now. It was only a sword and I've never heard of Alexander having any particular sentimentality towards his.
Most historical artifacts are forgeries anon.
You can't hate Enver Hoxha.
I mean sure, what's not to love about run-of-the-mill autocratic Marxist dictators who have genius ideas like pouring huge quantities of an already destitute nation's resources into fucking *bunkers*???
>>1350428
>I mean sure, what's not to love about run-of-the-mill autocratic Marxist dictators who have genius ideas like pouring huge quantities of an already destitute nation's resources into fucking *bunkers*???
I said you can't hate Enver Hoxha
>>1350428
>Being THIS revisionist
How much do we really know about the history and culture of the Aztec Empire and the general civilizations of Mesoamerica?
How is it possible that they share such striking similarities to the Mesopotamian civilizations?
>>1350218
Phoenicians
>>1350340
The greatest civilization builders of all time?
>>1350218
>How is it possible that they share such striking similarities to the Mesopotamian civilizations?
Elaborate please
What do you think of Jung and Freud?
While both certainly have their divergent paths of thought, each man has ideas worth engaging, whether you agree or disagree.
Both are crackpots and massively overrated by popular imagination.
>>1350068
>Freud
more like FRAUD
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